Bug#953127: RFS: fonts-jetbrains-mono/1.0.3-2 [ITP] -- free and open-source typeface for developers
On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 09:20:49PM +0100, Romain Porte wrote:
> 2020-03-16 20:52 CET, Adam Borowski:
> > On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 01:02:38PM +0100, Romain Porte wrote:
> > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=952954
> >
> > The main obstacle being the FontLab format problem, and I'm not very
> > knowledgeable about it. Unless there's some free tool that can read that
> > format and convert it (possibly in multiple hops) to TrueType, the font
> > can't enter the main archive.
> >
> > It would be greatly preferred to find a solution, but if one can't be
> > found, the "contrib" archive can be used. For that, you'd change
> > "Section: fonts" to "Section: contrib/fonts".
>
> So that was it! It was really unclear for me what the options we had, as
> I am very new to the ecosystem I did not think about changing the
> Section to contrib/fonts in order to "fix" this issue.
>
> As we do not find a compromise for main inclusion, I am fine for this
> package to go to contrib. I can explain the why in the debian/copyright
> file as suggested by Lintian when I have changed the section.
While I, and many others, don't like that, it's an acceptable solution.
> But just after that I received an email saying that the package could
> not be updated:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Unfortunately your package "fonts-jetbrains-mono" was rejected because
> > of the following reason:
> >
> > An upload with the same version but different distribution exists on
> > mentors. If you wish to upload this version for an other
> > distribution, delete the old one.
> >
> > Please try to fix it and re-upload. Thanks,
>
> So I deleted the whole package (all revisions) in the mentors web
> interface (cannot be done directly on command line? I think --force on
> dput would not help here as it is mentors-specific).
Right, good so far.
> But now when I am retrying to republish the package in mentors I get the
> following:
>
> > $ dput mentors fonts-jetbrains-mono_1.0.3-1_amd64.changes
> > Package has already been uploaded to mentors on mentors.debian.net
> > Nothing more to do for fonts-jetbrains-mono_1.0.3-1_amd64.changes
>
> And… basically reproduced it! This is why I have bumped the debian
> revision between -1 and -2 in the first place in my first uploads.
IIRC the message already includes a hint: you need to delete the
fonts-jetbrains-mono_1.0.3-1_amd64.upload file.
>
Meow!
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